Super Bowl LX Podcast: Seahawks, Patriots, and Our Commercial Rankings

Welcome to the Super Bowl LX Podcast. We started this episode at 10:27 EST. I’m podcasting like I get paid to do it!  

In this episode, we talk about the pregame, the Green Day Performance, some of the main plays from the Seahawks 29-13 win, the Bad Bunny halftime show, and rank our favorite commercials.

Commercial Rankings That Could Use Some Revision: 

1. Dunkin Doughnuts: Good Will Hunting remix. George, Sam from Cheers, Jennifer Anniston, Tom Brady. Gotta be a certain age to get it. 
2. Claude making fun of Gemini with the perfect follow up question. “Raging Cougars.” 
3. Colin and Che Draft Kings. “Live” at the game. 
4. Uber Eats: Cooper and McConaughey. He said the Pro Football Hall of Fame looked like a juicer. 
5. Instacart with Benson Boone and Ben Stiller. 
6. Take a Look at Your Pee. Liquid IV. 
7. Emotionally touching Rocket Mortgage about neighbors. 
8. Minions and monsters. Big white screen with tiny minion. 
9. YouTube “Meh” commercial with the Kelces, McCafferty. 
10. Netflix movie with Brad Pitt. Had Big Kahuna Burger in it. 
11. Weird: manscape commercial with talking hair. 

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Pregame: 

1. NBC made it seem less like a big game to me. I could only name Jason Garrett on the pregame show, and I wasn’t excited to hear from him. 
2. Super Bowl Memory Project / NFL Broadcast Part. 
3. Green Day: 

• Time of Your Life ending the NFL MVPs. Nice transition!
• Holiday. Boulevard of Broken Dreams. American Idiot. 
• Megan and Izzy wondering if he would say his MAGA agenda line. 

4. Chris Pratt’s kid I think said Let’s effing go for the Seahawks. 
5. Fighter pilots fist bump. 
6. I liked the focus on MVPs: Mannings, Montana, Jerry Rice

A few notes from the game: 

1. Sam Darnold starting in Super Bowl pretty amazing from Jets and MN. And a Panther briefly. 
2. 3-0. SEA first drive: right down the field and stall for a FG. 
3. Pats: Seahawks sack Maye. Also hurry him on the 3rd down where they had to punt. 
4. Pats: sacked again. Punt. (17th time Maye has been sacked in playoffs)
5. End of first quarter. 3-0. 
6. 6-0. SEA: Walker long run to 46. Another long run by Walker. 30 and 29 yard runs. Another FG. 
7. 30 new players is a record for Super Bowl. (Pats) 
8. Pats: Maye sacked again. Punt. 
9. SEA: Darnold moving around more than Maye so far. Seattle goes for it the least in the NFL. Great punt by Seattle. 9 possessions 7 punts. 
10. Pats: drive started from 2. Big first down pick up to at least not punt from the 2. Punt. 
11. 9-0. SEA with 11 seconds in half.
12. No team shutout in first half has won a Super Bowl. 
13. 12-0. SEA: FG on first drive second half. 
14. Pats: Punting 4th and 1 with 7:41 in third from 39. 
15. SEA: sacked. Pats got a little life. 
16. Pats: Tirico: Maye just can’t pull the trigger. Fumble. Turnover. 
17. SEA: Darnold 16 yard TD pass to Barner. 
18. Pats: very, very late hit on Diggs out of bounds. Weird Tirico calling him an idiot Rocket scientist. TD Patriots. 3 plays 65 yards. 
19. SEA- JSN, the receiver, comes back into the game after being evaluated for a concussion. 
20. Pats: a very poorly thrown ball for an INT. 8:37 left. 19-7. 
21. Sea: kicker sets Super Bowl Record with 5th FG
22. Pats: Maye sacked for 6th time. Fumble and returned for a TD. Megan asked, “How did the Patriots get this far?” 7th sack. 
23. Pats: TD when it looked like Maye would run it in but passed low at the last second. 
24. SEA: punt inside the 5 yards.
25. 15 punts and 5 FGs in this game. 

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